"I had to get up and join the Invincibles, and you see I'm all right." Harry was compelled to laugh at the sodden figure, from which the rain ran in streams.

But he admired St.Clair's spirit.
"It was by a hair's breadth, Arthur," he said.
"But we won across, just the same, and now I'm going back to that wagon to finish my cure.

I fancy that we'll now have a rest of six or eight hours, if General Jackson doesn't think so much time taken from war a mere frivolity." The Southern army drew off slowly, but as soon as it was out of sight the tenacious Northern troops undertook to follow.

They attempted to build a bridge of boats, but the flood was so heavy that they were swept away.

Then Fremont set men to work to rebuild the bridge, which they could do in twenty-four hours, but Jackson, meanwhile, was using every one of those precious hours..